The week that Discussion 5 is assigned, it will appear in the Discussion Board tab on the main menu. Provided here is the article you will need to read titled ‘The Dying Glaciers of California’ by Jeremy Miller from Earth Island Journal. Also provided here is the Grading Rubrics for discussions which you must follow to receive points for this assignment. The directions for Discussion 5 and the questions you will need to address in your discussion posts can be found in the Module 8 Directions. The exact due dates for your posts can be found at the end of the syllabus or the course schedule by week document.
You will not be able to view other students’ posts (threads) until you have submitted your main post.
PLEASE USE ONLY THE BELOW SOURCE
The bibliographic information for the article is:
Miller, Jeremy. “The Dying Glaciers of California.” Earth Island Journal. Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer 2013), pp. 48 – 53.
The bibliographic information for the article is:
Miller, Jeremy. “The Dying Glaciers of California.” Earth Island Journal. Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer
2013), pp. 48 – 53.
The questions you need to discuss in your main post are the following:
1) How did John Muir and Josiah Whitney differ on their theories of how Yosemite Valley
formed?
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2) In 1872, what was John Muir’s data collection method for testing if glaciers are alive
(moving)?
3) What is the data on the diminishing glaciers of the American West? The world? What does
this melting coincide with?
4) Since record keeping began, what does the temperature record show for California and how
does it affect the show pack in the Sierras?
5) When a glacier disappears, what are the effects on the local ecology?
6) What did the research find about the difference between the Lyell and Maclure Glaciers in
Yosemite?
Your main post is worth 10 points.
For your required two reply posts, make sure that you continue the discussion of the main post you
are replying to by using information from the article.
Your two replies are worth the other 10 points (5 points each).
Once five students have replied to a student’s main post, you cannot reply to that post unless you are
one of the original five and you are conversing back and forth continuing the conversation. This rule is
to insure that all students get at least one or two replies to their main post. Remember that a reply
does not count if you just say things like: “I agree with you”; “I disagree with you”; “I would have said
the same thing”; and so forth! This is a dialog between you and other students based on things you
found interesting, surprising, and/or new from the article. So you can obviously agree or disagree but
you must give reasons, examples, or insight into what you have learned. Think of this as an in-class
discussion if we were meeting face to face. You also must respect each other and be polite!
Make sure to read through and understand the two grading rubrics for discussions. Points are
rewarded or deducted based on the grading rubric so you will need to follow them if you are looking
for all 20 points.
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